Praveen Darshanam

About Praveen Darshanam

Praveen Darshanam has over 19.0 Years of Experience in Application, System and Network Security. Sound understanding of various attack techniques like Buffer Overflows, OWASP Top 10 etc. and their mitigation mechanisms.Found vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure (ICS) and Enterprise grade products like Advantech, Samsung, Apple, Adobe, Chrome etc. with multiple Cloud Security, Kubernetes, Microservices etc- Vulnerability Research and Malware Analysis- Reverse Engineering and Exploit Writing - Debugging with Windbg, OllyDBG, IDAPro etc- Web Application Security, OWASP Top10- Traffic Analysis (Anomaly Detection, AppID, Snort Rules)- Threat Management and Source Code Analysis- Python, C, AssemblyAreas of Interest: Anything bleeding/cutting edge overlapping with Information Security.

Experience

1. Director - Product Security

   Zeta

   Jul 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Zeta (Directi Group) is a FinTech leader offering wide range of digitised solutions for corporates, such as digital employee tax benefits, rewards and recognition and automated cafeteria solutions. Zeta intends to replace many legacy systems in use by banks for processing payments by building large-scale transaction processing systems that can work with many current and future payment networks- Write SOP\'s, OKR\'s and KPI\'s for organization wide Web/Mobile/Cloud Security implementation- Own and secure the entire technology stack of Zeta - Handling Cloud, Docker Kubernetes Security (EKS)- Initiate technical design & product security reviews to ensure product compliance with security best practices and relevant standards- Guidance on Hardening Nodes/VMs, Kubernetes security, Cloud Security etc- Decision making on product security, product compliance, architecture reviews etc.

Education

• National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Electrical Engineering

  1999 — 2003

• Delhi College of Engineering

  Master of Engineering (M.Tech/ ME/ MS), Control and Instrumentation

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Cryptography
• Computer Forensics
• Reverse Engineering
• C
• Cisco Technologies
• Routers
• Owasp
• Security Audits
• Ipsec
• Antivirus
• Application Security
• Metasploit
• Ids
• Cissp
• Encryption
• Pki
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Snort
• Intrusion Detection
• C Developer
• Security
• Iso 27001
• Ceh
• Wireless Security
• Nmap
• Computer Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Vulnerability Research and Signature Development
• Network Security
• Backtrack
• Security Architecture Design
• Information Security Management
• Wireshark
• Nessus
• Linux
• Malware Analysis
• Penetration Testing
• Ecsa
• Digital Signatures
• Mcafee